iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed — We all suspected it, but now it is confirmed: someone very, very close to the 3G iPhone launch has told me that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th. The second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the launch …

First Look: OLPC XO Generation 2.0 — I am here this morning in Cambridge, Mass., at OLPC's Global Country Workshop. Opening the conference this morning was OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, who announced the second generation of the OLPC XO laptop. — Negroponte didn't share many details …

TechMeme Finally Adds Search — Tech news site TechMeme launched on September 12, 2005. It was an immediate hit and remains the most important blog news aggregator: Dan Farber wrote perhaps the best description of the site to date, back in 2007: “TechMeme provides a one-page, aggregated …

Techmeme listens: 32 months in the making, search arrives! — Hours after Techmeme launched in 2005, search uberblogger Danny Sullivan remarked “there's no keyword search facility that I can see. I want that, and soon!” Nobody wants to let Danny down, so I got right to work and 32 months later, a search box now sits atop the site.

Apple's Mac sales up 50 percent in April — The blistering success of Apple's personal computer business continues to turn heads, with Mac unit sales growing 50 percent year-over-year for the month of April compared to just 17 percent growth by the broader market.

Netflix Roku: Free Is Such A Beautiful Word — Netflix made a big splash today with their announcement of a $100 set top box, built by a California startup called Roku, that streams free movies (for Netflix subscribers) to the living room. — Good for them.

Videos Taken Down From YouTube — YouTomb is an interesting project by MIT Free Culture that collects YouTube videos taken down because of copyright infringements. “More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns.

Report: The Mobile Web is the New Hangout — According to Opera's survey of the more 11.9 million Opera Mini users in March, almost 41% of mobile traffic now goes to social networking — up to 60% in some countries, including the US. Compare that to about 6% of total web traffic for social networks outside of the mobile web.

How to Make Facebook Useful Again — Oh the heels of some of Facebook's missteps (ahem, Beacon) and the proliferation of a myriad of useless, silly, and time-wasting apps, some former Facebook users decided to quit the site for good this year. However, a handful of early adopter angst doesn't have Facebook worried.

Hulu Shares Usage Stats, Expands Distribution Network — Hulu, the online joint video venture between NBC and News Corp that officially launched two months ago, is sharing some stats on its viewership. — According to the Nielsen Net Ratings, Hulu led all network sites in total video streams and overall engagement time in April.

Fans Resist End of Virtual Disneyland — Created to Celebrate 50th Anniversary, Free Game to Shut — For Walt Disney Co., the task of opening a virtual version of Disneyland on the Web was relatively easy. Closing it, though, is proving to be quite a bit more difficult …

James Cameron: 3D heading beyond movies — REDMOND, Wash.—Filmmaker James Cameron sees the world in stereo. So does everyone else, though, and that's exactly his point. — “When you are viewing in stereo, which is what we do,” Cameron said, “more neurons are firing. More blood is pumping through the brain.”

The Internet FAQ from 2085 — What was the internet? — The internet and the world web was a computing system to transfer human information. Scientists have based its beginning to the years 1920 to 1940. — What was electromail? — Electromail was another transport protocol …

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